Horse-collar



(No Model.)

J. -B. SGHOTT.

HORSE COLLAR.

Patented Decp17. 1889.

/z'Tnesse/s' .UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN ll. SCIIOT'I, OF QUINCY, ILLINOIS.

HORSE-COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,369, clate'l December 1'7, 1889.

Application filed August 5, 1889.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. SOHOTT, of Quincy, in the county of Adams and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse Collars and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the same, ref erence being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming apart of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to certain improvements in the class of collars which are formed in halves, and more particularly to the devices and means employed to join the completed halves together in a rigid and secure manner, but at the same time in such man- ,ner as to be easily and quickly separated,

should occasion require.

The invention consists in certain novel details of construction and combinations and arrangementof parts, all of Which will be hereinafter described, and pointed out particularly in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 isa perspective View of a collar constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the connecting-piece, with the two parts separated. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section; and Fig. 4, a transverse section on the line 00 00, Fig.

Similar letters of reference in the several figures indicate the same parts.

The collar itself is, as before stated,forn1ed in complete halves A A, and to the bottom of each half is rigidly connected, by screws D or otherwise, one-half of the connecting-piece, designed to rigidly unite both halves to form a complete collar, which may be opened and closed at the top for application to the horses neck in the ordinary manner. The halves D E of the connecting-piece are so arranged as to overlap or interlock, as follows: The half D is provided at the end with two side recesses dd, and a central rib d, in which is pivoted a turn-buckle F, and each of the recesses is provided near the upper end with an aperture (1 extending way through the piece. The half E is provided at the end with two projecting arms or extensions 6, which fit the recesses d in the half -D, each arm having at Serial No. 319,746. (No model.)

the end a projection or stud e, which enters the corresponding aperture (l in the recess cl. As thus constructed, when the parts are brought together in the relations indicated and the turn-buckle given a half-turn, they will be rigidly united, the joint being made more secure, if desired, by beveling the surfaces of the projections c, with which the turn-buckle engages, as indicated in Fig. 4.

The style of turn-buckle may be varied to suit the style of collar, but .in the preferred form consists of a loop through which a thong of the hame-string or a special strap may be passed to prevent the turning of the buckle and disengagement of the parts.

In the preferred construction illustrated in Fig. 1 the connecting device is covered by a flap G, of leather, which may be permanently connected to one-half of the collar and form a shield for the joint on the inside; or it may be separate and adapted to be simply buckled around the collar and connecting device.

The halves of the device, it will be noted, are preferably located directly in the depression formed for the reception of the hame, and in order that the hames may have a proper seat the halves are recessed for the reception of the lower end of the hame. This construction, it will be seen, enables the collar to be properly narrowed down at the lower end, in order to leave the horses throat perfectly free without forming unnecessarily bulky shoulder-pads, and at the same time the collar is made stronger at the point where it is most liable to be broken by rough handling.

By employing a central rib and the arms on opposite halves a connecting device is formed which cannot be bent laterally, as would. be the case were the halves simply overlapped and the turn buckle passed through an aperture in the overlapping half.

Havin g thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1. In a fastening for horse collars, the combination, with the halves D E, of an extension or extensions 6 on one half, an open seat or seats (I on the opposite half for said extension or extensions, and the turn-buckle F,

pivoted in one of said halves and engaging 2. The eombination, with a horse-eollar l'ormetl in halves, with one halt united to formed in eomplete halves, of a eonneeting' eaeh half of the collar at; the lower e.\',t;remi- I5 device lOl'lHQtl in halves,\\'ithonehaltunitetl ties thereof, the open reeesses 1/, with the to eachhalt'olf the collar at the lower extremiopenings IF therein, and central l'll) with the 5 ties thereof, the recesses, apertures, illltl eenloop turn-lniekle F pivoted therein on one tral rib at the Clltl ot one halt, the arms or hall of the arms or projections v, with the projections on theoppositehallf titting'insaitl projeetions a thereon on the opposite hall, 20 recess, with the studs or projections entering substantially as aml t'orthepurposespeeitietl. the apertures and the turnbuel leon the een- \Yitnesses:

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hold the halves in engagement.

The combination, with a horse-Collar IO tral rib engaging said arms or projections to I JOHN l). StllO'J" formed in halves, of a connecting device 

